ecophysiology

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The study of the interrelationship between an organism's physical functioning and its environment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The study of the relationships between, and adaptation of, the physiology of an organism and its environment

Etymologies

eco- +‎ physiology (Wiktionary)

Examples

How does that record stack up against University of Montana professor Steven Running, who shares the Nobel Prize on the topic, has a Ph. d in foresty ecophysiology and who has conducted research on global warming?

Slide 3: We have put our knowledge about algal ecophysiology to good use in the following major field studies: •Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study - the Beardall lab was responsible for studies on •phytoplankton distributions and productivity (R. Royle and Simon Roberts); •benthic microalgal distributions and productivity (B. Light, PhD project) and